Trivandrum Projects & Infrastructure :News

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SFS Waterscapes, (17 levels), Akkulam

Just 300m off the Akkulam Bridge, NH bypass.

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And the proejct would be coming up in the place marked by the arrow.

Lot of balconies are given for the views, and all apartments look in to the lake.

[Sathyalal]

Thiruvananthapuram: The export of fresh fruits and vegetables to various destinations in the Gulf from three airports of the State, which had come to a standstill, will resume on Sunday midnight.


Only frozen fish to Zurich and live plants to Europe were exported through the three airports since Friday midnight. The airlines have incurred a loss of Rs.85 lakh.

Cargo space had been booked on all flights departing after Sunday midnight. The exporters approached the Union Ministry of Commerce and various airlines to reduce the freight rates that are on the higher side.

Of the estimated 80 tonnes of fresh fruits and vegetables exported on daily from the three airports, 60 tonnes is exported from Thiruvananthapuram, 15 tonnes from Kochi and nearly 10 tonnes from Kozhikode.

The country earns Rs.200 crore as annual foreign exchange from the export of vegetables and fruits
http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/29/stor...2956591700.htm

[Sathyalal]

Degree C hunts for biz ideas via Techtop platform

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 29 Gizmo-searchers, be alerted, Wheelchair with a joystick to navigate even the blind user, VLSI technology robot that can follow the target and catch it cost-efficiently, helmet with mike, amplifier and speaker audibility clarifier that tackles the complaint of helmets blocking eardrums are some of the student ideas on demo at Degree Controls Inc's (Degree C) engineering talent hunt TECHTOP 2007 this week.

The campus inventor has ideas for the quiet cradle to the noisy highway. There are also fancy devices like electronic cradle (with pulse oximeter and music system) that alerts of urine and voice from the baby and intelligent light-dimmer (that prevents accidents due to high intensity light beam from opposite vehicle).

As much as Rs 1 lakh in prize money is awaiting the student engineering team with the most catchy idea that's commercially viable too. Software contestants are not included, the organisers (Degree C and Tecnopark in Kerala Capital) caution.

Degree C in Milford New Hampshire USA is one of the world's best known names in innovative thermal and airflow electronics.

Degree C has scaled up its scope of engineering talent search from just five South Indian States last year to all over the engineering colleges in India. "This year, we have 17 contesting teams," says Rajesh Nair, chairman and CTO, Degree-C India, the Indian subsidiary of the the US firm.

Thus TECHTOP 2007 has contesting engineering colleges from Gujarat and Maharashtra like the VVP Engineering College, Rajkot and People Education Society's College, Aurengabad this year.

"Our interest in sponsoring the event is that it would develop as a conduit for engineering talents to use the busines incubation initiatives of Technopark," Technopark CEO C Radhakrishnan Nair said.

http://www.financialexpress.com/news...atform/233941/

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And here comes the biggie, "MIND SPACE" from K Raheja

This appeared in the Supplement of Economic Times "Western Business Review", dated 29th October 2007.

[Sathyalal]

Chandrashekharan Nair stadium

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Kanakakkunnu palace premises

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Varkeys Tower

[sowmya]

I read in The Hindu that Saawariya is releasing in City Theatres Trivandrum next week. Is this a multiplex? What is it exactly?

[Subin]

Originally Posted by sowmya

I read in The Hindu that Saawariya is releasing in City Theatres Trivandrum next week. Is this a multiplex? What is it exactly?

Its not a multiplex. I guess its the "New Theatre". Its one of the biggest theatres in Kerala (with a seating capacity of 1300+)

[Sathyalal]

This is what we can call sucess and development. Not just the realestate. It is nice to watch Trivandrum grown Toonz, Suntec,IBS,UST etc

Toonz Animation comes out of outsource worker image
Sunday November 4 2007 06:45 IST
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

T'URAM: Toonz Animation India has bade good bye to the outsource works as it has proved successful in own and co-productions.

"We have emerged from the shadows of an outsourcing hub for Western clients to the status of a co-producer with media giants like BBC, Disney, Sony Entertainment etc. Today, Toonz is co-producing Hanuman Returns・ the sequel to India's first successful animated movie Hanuman, which is due to hit theatres during the later part of December this year," said Toonz CEO P Jayakumar.

Speaking at the 8th anniversary celebrations of the company, Jayakumar also announced that the company had entered into agreements with Beijing University and Shengyang University in China to set up centres of excellence in animation training.

"Our training centers across India under the aegis of Toonz Academy have been a huge success and we would like to further that by emerging as a global film and media training centre," he said. Toonz has already begun talks with the State Government for setting up a film and media training centre at Kinfra Park in Thiruvananthapuram.
According to him, Toonz has not been concentrating much on the Indian market as the animation industry itself is in infancy stage in the country.

Toonz has now become one of the largest animation production houses in the South Asia region with a client list that include BBC, Disney, Sony Entertainment, Paramount, Hallmark and Warner Brothers. Apart from Thiruvananthapuram, Toonz has set up Animation academies in Mumbai, Nagpur and Delhi, and has plans to set up more in other cities in India. The company currently employs over 600 animation experts in its various facilities in India and around 400 across the world.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems...apuram&Topic=0

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Trivandrum is overtaking all the other animation hubs in Asia.

The news item related to Animation Industry in Trivandrum

T'PURAM: Animation film projects from the US and the UK, which were dependent on the motion capture facility・in Malaysia and Singapore, are now turning to India’s first sector-specific Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for Animation and Gaming in the KINFRA Film & Video Park (KFVP) at Kazhakkoottam.

The reason: Its standard design modules with quality at relatively cheaper rates. Though a similar facility was available in Chennai earlier, that was closed down.

Now this facility stands out unique in the country. Set up in April this year by Accel Animation Studios, a division of Accel Transmatic Ltd, the motion capture facility has already received a project from the US-based Motion Analysis, and expects orders from France. Accel has also tied up with US-based Long Tale International to develop, co-produce and distribute animation movies for the global market.

Apart from Accel, three leading animation companies - Toonz Animation, Compact Disc India and Dimensions are in the process of setting up export-oriented animation units (EOU). KINFRA has allotted land for all the four units and of that Accel is already operational. Compact has obtained the approval from SEZ regional development commissioner to set up an EOU, while Toonz and Dimensions are awaiting the approval.

Having provided world-class infrastructure facility for EOUs, KINFRA has forayed into its plan to open up an International Animation School by the coming academic year. The Union Ministry of Commerce has given the approval for the school and has released the initial installment grant of Rs 2.2 crore.
Modelled on similar theme parks in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, the KFVP, as KINFRA's managing director AS Suresh Babu puts it, "has a wide range of investment options such as video studios, facilities for digital cinema, animation and special effect studios, DVD and CD replication service providers, teleport and outdoor shooting facilities that one can choose from."

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems...apuram&Topic=0

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near AIR

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IITM-K has become the first institution in the country, other than the IITs, to host the NPTEL mirror site.

The Thiruvananthapuram-based Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K) has hosted the first mirror site of National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) web-content under its Education Grid.

With this, IITM-K has become the first institution in the country, other than the IITs, to host the NPTEL mirror site.

Using the Education Grid portal and NPTEL support, IIITM-K is now working to launch support services for interaction and collaboration for some of the NPTEL courses.

Besides, IIITM-K has submitted proposals to the AICTE, Ministry of Human Resources Development and DIT to expand its Education Grid-based Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning (TELT) services for the colleges for effective use of e-content from NPTEL and other sources.

The institute is working on starting proficiency certificate programmes for teachers in the colleges using the NPTEL course material, online content such as MIT's Open Courseware and several other rich sources of quality content that will help the teachers and their colleges to offer quality education to their students, said an IIITM-K source.

According to the source, the institute has sensitised hundreds of college teachers in the region on the effective use of TELT methodologies in improving instructional delivery. IIITM-K was also the host to the first NPTEL Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning for Enriching Engineering Education held in January 2007 at its Technopark location.

IIITM-K has, over the last four years, been involved closely with the Centre's NPTEL in which over 320 faculty members from the IITs and IISCs have developed e-content in about 230 courses catering to the undergraduate engineering curriculum in the AICTE-approved engineering colleges.

Of these, as many as 110 courses are in the form of full-length recorded video lectures, comprising about 40 lecture hours per course, and as web-based supplementary learning materials in about 130 courses.

Courses are being offered in core sciences, Computer Science, Civil, Mechanical, Electronics and Electrical Engineering related subjects, the source added.

http://www.business-standard.com/str...o=303415&tab=r

World class educational institutions such as IIST, ISSER, RGCB,IITM-K etc together with world renowned research firms like ISRO, CDAC, RRL etc are making this place unique in the country.

[Santhosh]

Yes, Monthly hartal too will make this place unique in the country.

[Sathyalal]

Santhosh,
Your comment is offensive,sarcastic and is revealing your intentions. At least try to appreciate the fact that Trivandrum is in the leage of educational hubs of the world. As a trivandrumite I am happy to see that. If I do not like it, my approach is to console my self with some negative which is not relevant in this context. The knowledge based industries of Trivandrum are not affected when other parts of the state are affected. Do you think that ISRO is affected or TP is affected? Even Bangalore had to stop working a couple of days racently. But TP/ISRO were exceptions. Please understand that this is a specific thread for Trivandrum. If you have generic concerns about Kerala, please start a Kerala thread and post your concerns there.

I have noticed that you selectively attack this thread; why there are no such postings in other Kerala related threads? Your intolerance is only towards the positive developments of Trivandrum.

Originally Posted by Santhosh

Yes, Monthly hartal too will make this place unique in the country.

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Animation outsourcing company Compact Disc India Ltd (CDI) on Wednesday said it has secured an animation outsourcing contract worth $19.80 million from US-based digital entertainment company Imedia Ventures Ltd.

CDI would make this 3D animation film over a period of 21 months at its state-of-the-art studio being set up at the Kinfra SEZ, Thiruvananthapuram, he further said.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2525827.cms

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Read the interesting story of a Trivandrumite(Nandakumar), who has conquered the global billing software industry. He did not start with a multinational.. His humble beginning started from Technopark. Read how he was able to groom such a prestigious institution (SunTec) and was able to win customers all over the world. He did not get any support/hype from our local media.
Be Proud of him..
http://www.technopark.org/innovator-nov-fin.pdf

[elm07]

any updates on the Trivandrum-Kollam suburban rail plans? Last I heard was a few months ago that this will be operational by Dec 07, but havent heard any updates after that. There was also talk of increasing the lines from 2 to 4 in Kollam district, is there a timeline for that?

[Sathyalal]

Elm,
Last week,Political secretary of ChiefMinister, Balagopal had stated that the first suburban train will start operation between TVM and Kollam with in a few months.
We have to wait and see what happens

Originally Posted by elm07

any updates on the Trivandrum-Kollam suburban rail plans? Last I heard was a few months ago that this will be operational by Dec 07, but havent heard any updates after that. There was also talk of increasing the lines from 2 to 4 in Kollam district, is there a timeline for that?